Nominations for 2025 are now open!
Click here to start your nomination.
Do you work at a public library? Has a community partner made a difference by collaborating with you?
Every Summer, the I Partner With My Public Library Award invites you to recognize the accomplishments of exceptional partners. Each year, 10 are honored at an online ceremony held in their honor.
Nominations will be accepted through the end of August, 2025. At that point, a team of volunteer reviewers will score the nominations, and those rated the highest will be notified by October 15, 2024, with a public awards ceremony occurring in November, 2024. Awardees will be publicly celebrated on the Let’s Move in Libraries webpage in perpetuity, alongside winners from 2023 and 2024.
You can now also sign up to serve as a reviewer.
Get your nominations ready by reviewing the 2024 I Partner with My Public Library Awards and the 2023 I Partner with My Public Library Awards.
You can also learn more about this effort in this article published on OCLC/WebJunction.
Intergenerational connections thanks to partnership between Elmwood: An Inspira Health Group Senior Care Facility and Hubbard Public Library, a 2024 Honorable Mention.
Why does Let’s Move in Libraries sponsor this award?
Since 2016, the non-profit organization Let’s Move in Libraries has been a national and international voice advocating for strengthened partnerships between public libraries and others that want our communities to be healthier places for all. Through this work, we have seen that public libraries can do a lot to promote health, but this health promotion work is almost always made possible by community partners and community collaborators. Recognizing a gap around this topic, in 2023 Let’s Move in Libraries launched the annual I Partner with My
Public Library Award to begin the process of creating a platform to celebrate and acknowledge the crucial work of community collaborators to the work of public librarianship. This award is open to all partners, not only those focused on health promotion.